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# chents

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The R package **chents** provides some utilities for working with chemical 
entities in R.

## Features

- Some chemical information is retrieved from the PubChem website using the webchem 
package
- If PythonInR is installed and configured, and RDKit is available via
PythonInR, some additional chemical information is computed and a 2D graph can
be plotted
- Additional information can be read from a local .yaml file

## Examples

Some examples are available from the 
[reference on jrwb.de](http://pkgdown.jrwb.de/chents/reference).